Kidney Tattoos

Dan and Matt have a great deal in common, although they have never met. Both were in their teens when they were diagnosed with immunoglobulin A nephropathy. Both had inexorable decline in their kidney function in their 20s. They both had kidney transplants—Matt from a step-brother, Dan from a sister initially, and then when that transplant failed, via a paired exchange. Both have been patients of mine for over 10 years.

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